Global Energy Ventures has received critical regulatory approvals allowing planning for a giant green hydrogen production and export scheme to be constructed on aboriginal land on the Tiwi Islands offshore of Darwin in the Northern Territory. GEV plans a 2.8 GW solar pv array, a 30km electricity transmission line and a green hydrogen and production…
The first two planned hydrogen hubs have received expressions of interest representing $4 billion in investment and 5,900 megawatts of electrolyser capacity, according to the NSW government. The government has allocated $70 million to its Hydrogen Hubs program – with the first two planned for the Hunter and Illawarra regions – as part of its…
Researchers from the University of Queensland have developed a new process for coating a cathode, published in the journal Nature Communications, which they say could more than double the durability of lithium ion batteries.
Comment by Peter Roberts The news that the federal government is moving to vastly enlarge the size of the Osborne naval shipyard in Adelaide should refocus attention on the immense scale of efforts to build nuclear submarines in Australia perhaps costing as much as $171 billion over their lifetime. It should also focus attention on…
Comment by Peter Roberts Victorian senator Kim Carr has announced he will not be re-contesting his seat in the senate in the upcoming election, with his departure a sad loss to Australian public life and especially to the battle to value innovation and manufacturing in national policy. Carr has been rather unfairly characterised by his…
By Peter Roberts Hot on the tail of a $4.3 billion promise to expand the Henderson maritime precinct in Perth, Adelaide has been offered a similar carrot with the federal government leasing a massive area for the expansion of the Osborne naval shipyard. The government has revealed it will lease an additional 45 hectares of…
The federal government has announced a $52 million grant to assist a Gilmour Space Technologies-led consortium build new manufacturing and test facilities for launch vehicles and satellites, as well as a spaceport in north Queensland.
By Peter Roberts South Australia’s new Labor government has emphatically refocussed on the manufacturing sector with the choice of Deputy Premier Susan Close to serve as the state’s industry and science minister in the new Cabinet. Premier Peter Malinauskas announced his Cabinet on Thursday morning with Close, who has been the Deputy Labor leader since…
Control systems engineering company Lycaon Group has announced the launch of an Autonomous Hybrid (electric/hydrogen) Vehicle (Pictured, and video below). The East Fremantle, Western Australian company said the new autonomous vehicle platform was part of an ongoing internal project which is now entering the field trial phase. The company did not reveal the planned use…
University of Wollongong-headquartered Hysata recently made headlines with a breakthrough paper in Nature Communications, demonstrating a “giant leap” in water splitting progress and a claim to be on track to $2/kilogram hydrogen by 2025. The UoW spinout business was launched in mid-2021 with $5 million in seed funding from the IP Group and the Clean…